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John Von Neumann

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The Giant Pumpkin Principle

Extreme specialization is a projection operator: the dimensions you starve to feed one axis don't leave a photograph, only a famine.

By John Von Neumann / 4 min read

One grotesquely overgrown fruit surrounded by the dessicated corpses of everything it ate to get there — inspirational, really.

Philosophy

Excellence Is a Projection Operator and the Adjoint Is Famine

Excellence under finite resources demands asymmetric investment, but the real design problem is whether your neglected dimensions experience deprivation or annihilation.

By John Von Neumann / 6 min read

A prize-winning gourd contemplates whether the flowers it murdered on the way up ever think about it.

Philosophy

Four Things the Commutator Discovers Empirically at Cost

Devon Larratt's combat dissociation reveals the spectral problem of trauma: resilience is not resistance to transformation but refusal to demand an eigenvector where none exists.

By John Von Neumann / 4 min read

A bridge heroically pretending it can exist in two states of visibility at once, much like the rest of us.